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Thursday, January 11, 2024
Is the British Monarchy different from all other constitutional monarchies?
I share Dan's views of the final season of The Crown. And I look forward to reading his paper. The paper also gives me an excuse to post something I thought about after watching the final season and doing some googling about the real people and events: Is the British monarchy unique compared compared with the many other constitutional monarchies of Europe? That could be as a matter of power. Or it could be as a matter of how seemingly out of hand it is--in terms of monetary cost, public interest and obsession, "out of touch," being tabloid fodder, whatever. The perception is that the British royal family is dysfunctional. Is it uniquely so compared with the royal families of Norway or Denmark? We don't hear stories about those families--is it because they are not as closely connected to the US or is the British monarchy different?
Posted by Howard Wasserman on January 11, 2024 at 03:52 PM in Howard Wasserman | Permalink
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